I switched to amd64/2008.0 . Is there a more detailed reason to chose desktop over 2008.0?
Handbook doesn't really say what is different nor do the profiles themselves.

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Then re-run 'emerge -uDNav world'

Then at list you'll have an updated system to start with.

Running that now. Only thing it showed out of date was GCC, and it wanted to
remerge my nvidia-driver, which means I'll spend time getting the video to work again.
I've never seen such fragile drivers as NVidia.